Dub / Reggae: An Idiot's Guide

sweet, thanks again outic

I'm a huge fan of these mixes

thx - my pleasure!

awesome! thx for the links

full disclosure this mix is heavier on the roots and less so on the dub side, I wasn't too strict about style, was going more for consistent tone and content etc

Love these mixes too. Thanks for sharing. Don't think I had Vol.3.

A few years back I made a little fade in/fade out mix of some dub/roots tunes. I may have posted it before but since folks are digging this vibe I thought I would toss it out again.

http://biznotic.com/music/badcompany.mp3

Thanks Οὖτις and brotherlovesdub -- these mixes are great!

i have a mix from awhile back and accompanying dub version
mix
mix dub

huh did not know that Junior Ross & the Spears track/album thx amon!

its from this comp

Both albums on that comp are amazing.

Add mine to the voices eagerly anticipating checking these mixes out. Thanks to both of you for those.

In the meantime just wanted to say I was really touched by Beres Hammond's Rockaway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-E-YnyLK4

Maybe kind of corny but I feel like that message really resonates right now.

my first reggae 45 purchase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW3mCOO83g4

a good one!

love most of the jah stitch stuff ive heard

I only have that single and Dread Inna Jamdown but yeah he seems p reliably great

meant to post this last week, i heard this eek a mouse tune during a reggae program on one of my local college radio stations, i was impressed esp not being very familiar w/ eek a mouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dmxg3nEQIs

produced by linval thompson, roots radics are backing band

dude is a legend obviously but ... tbh that goofy name has always put me off

ha me too, then i heard this and in search of that starker, sparser post-roots early dancehall sound i started to get really intrigued

Wa Do Dem is a classic, especially of that particular sound. check out "Ganja Smuggling"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRb7mprbj54

good footage! what's the year?

good number of white hippies in the audience

no idea what year this is, late 70s by the look of it

Think that footage is from the undercard of the One Love Peace Concert from '78, most famous for this:

http://jamaicans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Bob-Marley-joins-the-hands-of-Michael-Manley-Edward-Seaga.jpg

hmm yeah looks like it

It passed me by when it was announced, but VP has reissued Pick A Dub by Keith Hudson, with the original artwork and a second LP of the vocal versions.

Trenchtown Mix-Up by the Gladiators has to be one of the best reggae albums in history. Literally no bad songs on it at all. How can I lobby for a reissue?

It's still available isn't it? On CD at least. It's a good one for sure.

I see that "Madness" by the Maytones is being reissued soon, that's a belter.

yeah i meant on record. it's just brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0vFeWqVTnY

wtf @ munchkin voice chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPO6yFXrIWo

haha

I can't think of any other reggae song I've heard that uses that particular trick, it really jumped out at me. got a few more 45s recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZUxRWt-wK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqD4r1-opc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh2s-qeTqXM

don't think I have ever been so bummed about a website going black for months on end as I am about roots-archives

anyone know where this footage is from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGf7gr_dmyU

this, I think: https://www.discogs.com/Augustus-Pablo-Various-The-Mystic-World-Of-Augustus-Pablo-The-Rockers-Story/release/1491449

longer version of same Pablo footage iwth live concert footage. great find :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyxGr53lIo

I lol'd

http://www.whydoyoulikeit.com/2017/10/reggae-albums-that-look-like-heavy.html?m=1

hah, i bought Blackheart Man back in the day especially because I liked the metalness of the cover

solid album

blackheart man is excellent, i tend to go to that one more than the actual wailers albums

the Wailers' collective discography (early rocksteady stuff, Lee Perry era, the two with Bob, and then Bob, Peter and Bunny's solo albums) represents a pretty weird cross-section of reggae when you think about it. I'm not sure what I like the best, but it's probably Catch a Fire and Burnin'.

god i love that Massive Dread sleeve

I've never heard/seen that one!

not dub-related per se but since this seems to be the general vintage reggae repository thread of late, I just got this book: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/dancehall-book-the-rise-of-jamaican-dancehall-culture which is p fantastic. (I have the comp too, which is a p good general overview of the biggest/canonical stuff)

was reminded of marcos' interest in that early dancehall/Roots Radics sorta sound but I can't remember if that was mentioned on this thread or some other one. anyway... good stuff!

this album's pretty great, super-spacey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP0eOtZ0Q9M

xp that's definitely a blind spot for me. would love to know more about 80s dancehall

that book looks rad xp